Quinn

The surname is borrowed from Irish Ó Coinn (“descendant of Chief”).

• IPA^(key): /kwɪn/, [kʰw̥ɪn]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: quin

Quinn (countable and uncountable, plural Quinns)

1. A surname from Irish.
   • 2025 March 23, Harmeet Kaur, “How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     But the ex-boyfriend’s rant quickly attracted the attention of online forum 4chan users, who seized on the alleged relationship between Quinn and the Kotaku writer.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A female given name transferred from the surname, of occasional 1990s and later usage.
   • 2011, David Mansour, From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century:

     As a junior at Lawndale High School, Daria isn't popular (unlike the shallow Quinn, whom others adore), but she actually prefers not to be popular.

4. An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
5. A ghost town in Macomb County, Michigan.
6. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Missouri.
7. A tiny town in Pennington County, South Dakota.

• Peccei-Quinn theory

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Quinn is the 422^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 76,986 individuals. Quinn is most common among White (86.2%) individuals.

• Quinne